I’m still shocked by the marches and rallies around the country opposing immigration. Everyone involved says mass immigration, but it’s clear in practice they mean most immigration – and definitely all immigration by people who aren’t white, or as I like to say, ‘pink’. Here I am travelling through my own homeland once again and, at times, it seems like a foreign country – not because of immigrants but because of those who have grown up here. Those taking part in these marches probably have genuine grievances, but they have picked the wrong target to blame and, in the process, have been steered into becoming in effect neo-Nazi fellow travellers. We are (almost) all immigrants here, only just starting to genuinely come to grips with this country.
What is interesting, and heartening, is that – apart from the Nazis, who don’t want any immigration – no-one else wants to publicly oppose immigration completely. No-one seems too keen to be publicly associated with organising the events either. It’s clear that those involved sense that the whole thing could easily be on the nose.
